Recipe for enormous profits, defective homes and foreclosure disaster
Shoddy or not, for the past ten years homebuilding has remained the chief indicator holding up the economy, and from the President to Congress no one wanted to disrupt the money flow.  The result is the homebuilding industry grew more powerful and confident in building defective homes without consequences.

The myths of watering foundation and under designed slabs
Too much rain, lack of rain, trees and other “Acts of God” exposed as a fairy tale
It has been well established that foundation failures are widespread.  Critics claim that in most cases foundation failures are the result of an unregulated industry, unskilled labor and builders cutting corners for the sake of higher profits...We have it on good authority that the excuse for foundation failures caused by too much rain, lack of rain or trees is a fairy tale, and that “Acts of God” are acts of man in order to increase builder profits.

Jury Awards Compensatory Damages to 4 Bridlewood Homeowners - Another Settles! The Bridlewood group in Louisville , KY   finally got their day in court, which ended yesterday with compensatory damages ranging from $4,000 to $6,000 each.  As the leader of the group, it was very cathartic to get in the face of DR Horton VP and in-house counsel, David Maurice, yesterday and give him my expectations of DR Horton... we've battled an $11 billion per year monster.

They have gone where no one would dare to go --- the swamplands, the corn fields, the fertile cow pastures and the water-laden stock tank areas of rural America .  They have stripped the lands of trees and sowed their unsightly-cookie-cutter box shaped homes, blighting the countryside with what many critics refer to as disposable housing...When it comes to defying all good business principles of producing a durable and lasting product, KB has truly excelled.  While most companies fail due to a bad product, negative press and their infamous reputations, KB Home has thrived on the idea that if you make it easy for customers or just build it, they will come, regardless of quality.

Warning!  Avoiding Builder Contracts that Harm New Home Buyers
How to minimize the risks
A message from Janet Ahmad

Cincinnati Enquirer
Hammer home-builder fraud
Two pairs of local white-collar criminals are prison-bound for similar fraud schemes that ripped off banks and home buyers. Bankers John Finnan and Marc Menne were sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Covington to 63 and 54 months respectively for their roles in the $30 million Erpenbeck home-building fraud. Eleven days earlier, Fairfield home builder Chester Calkins and his wife, Antonette, pleaded guilty to a similar $5 million scam.